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My comments in post #31 point out the concern you are alluding to. The point of the post is to highlight how classical rationalism and other truths have their own platform from which they operate. When you tend to operate on someone else's platform, I would argue you don't get much headway.

He's the perfect example of a classical rationalist.

In posting this, I don't wish to enter the whole theism-atheism fray. I'm only pointing out that Dawkins and classical reasoning operates on a platform and asserting that others who attempt to reason on any other platform than their own, are doomed. The Dawkins slaughter of Liberty...

A huge rift over "truth" and who possesses it rightfully appears to be coming out here. I don't believe anyone would discount the importance of science, but you wouldn't use the scientific method in order to decide to buy food that is "good" for you. Similarly, we can all agree that "good" art...

Yep, Richard Dawkins......meet Lord Byron.

Meadow's comment reminds me of the observation that people in their "cage" cars look depressed. "Who is happy on monday morning?" gave me a good chuckle. Pirsig's comments about time was a subtle, but profound argument. The scene where a mechanic just bangs Pirsig's engine to pieces and...

In more of an accoustical mood as of late. I love the "friends don't let friends get haircuts" on the guitar-dig on Metallica who was in the audience according to a few sources......

I have to say that I'm up to chapter 5 now and I'm probably done for the night. I did enjoy Pirsig's writing style and while motorcycles and other technical things are not my bag, the workings of engines and the associated concerns with motorcycles was fairly easy to understand and to picture...

Welcome aboard! Never feel guilty about what you read, deep down, the cynics want to read it too. Loved the Stockett book, I couldn't put it down.

What an interesting pick for the month! It retails for $2.99 on amazon in the states.;) A fascinating companion reader would be Sheldon Kopp's If you meet the Buddha on the side of the road, kill him! Kopp argued that the truth is inside all of us and that the modern priest(i.e.-the guru) and...

Can you trust Jared Diamond? In criticism, his work is faulted among the lines of Malcolm Gladwell's. The use of nebulous and generalized findings that reek of "correlation is not causation" reminders from grad school. Sounds like a good book, too bad I'm in to about three right now! Argh...

Welcome Charles from the peanut gallery. ;)

I need to read that book, supposedly it is what lead Obama to appoint republicans to his cabinet. Doris Kearns Goodwin could right about paint drying and it would re-set the genre.

Welcome! Feel free to post away.

Hmmm, so there are world leaders who are perfect and who are not creatures of their time. Amazing how he fell sooooooo short. The same kind of opprobrium is more deserving of the 1920s and '30s labour party.

Just finished Sh*t my dad says. A great read on the advice that a father gives a son. Arguably the funniest book I've read in a long time.

If it rains any more, I'm building an ark.

I've seen his books pop up a lot on amazon, he is getting a lot of positive coverage. I would recommend Thomas Sowell's The quest for cosmic justice. Sowell highlights how in many countries, ethnic minorities outperform the majority due to certain values and skills that are taught to the youth...

For the life of me, I fail to understand why we don't make certain crimes against children a capitol offense.